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“The Anti-Flirt Club was an American club active in Washington, D.C., during the early 1920s. The purpose of the club was to protect young women and girls who received unwelcome attention from men in automobiles and on street corners. The Anti-Flirt Club launched an “Anti-Flirt” week, which began on March 4, 1923.” “The club had [...]
On my internet travels today, I came across an old American comic genre for young newlyweds. Young Brides and the Secrets of Young Brides, provide an eye-opening peak into popular culture before the sexual revolution. What strikes me the most about these cover pages is how laughably pessimistic the story lines are for a publication [...]
I‘ll admit I’m one of those people that is taken aback when I get in a taxi with a female driver. I’ll sit there for the entire ride wondering how they got into such a male-driven industry. Diana Diroy decided to stop wondering and start asking. ::: YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: .
The answer is yes, in 1959 no less– pre-birth control and pre-Civil Rights Acts for equal employment opportunity. This is a photograph of Mrs. Helen Mann, a striking employee of the RCA and holder of two master’s degrees in physics. If she wasn’t helping the air force to prepare complicated test data for computer analysis, [...]
So this is what your uniform looks like if you are a female beach volleyball player on the Olympic team. Bikinis (with bottoms that do not exceed six centimetres in width at the hip) have always been a requirement. Yeah, as in the athletes have no choice. So it’s kind of like that time when women didn’t [...]
Berlusconi and Strauss-Kahn. Both were in positions of immense power and very much in the public eye. Why would they risk their reputations so callously? Or why were their ongoing antics obligingly brushed under the carpet for so long? The Italian and the Frenchman… Both notorious lovers, both synonymous with an infamous culture of vigorous [...]
The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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This weekend, my boyfriend pulled out not one, not two but three grays he noticed glistening in the
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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A room with uninterrupted sea views? Admittedly, it might need a bit of work but this underwater
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I had you at ‘Free Wine & Cheese‘, didn’t I? If you’ve been umming and
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I remember when I first saw it, Avenue Junot, the cobblestone road that winds up to Montmartre
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Today I thought we could make a quick stop at Villa Pausa on the French Riviera, the former
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Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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I had always thought Sophia’s disapproving look in this iconic photograph taken by Delmar
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After only five years in Paris, “Genevieve de Milwaukee” has gone from editorial
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You might have heard there’s a new pinboard-style photo sharing website on the scene, a
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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the
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